Feature Articles / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Abstract
The terms integral, leadership and diversity are explored with the purpose of showing how it is useful to consider them in relation to each other. Such consideration is significantly impacted by how we understand these and other terms that will be introduced. It is essential for us to appreciate how our approaches to meaning and sense making influence how we make choices about what is relevant, how we engage with these choices to implement efforts toward learning, …
Feature Articles / June 2012
Wali I. Mondal and Mark R. Peters
In is 2006 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Muhammad Yunus set forth a vision for creating a world without poverty, a world where people would need to go to a museum to experience what poverty was like (Yunus, 1). Such a bold vision is inspirational and it was unthinkable just a few generations ago. Yunus is not alone in believing that this generation is …
Column / June 2012
Don Beck
If anyone ever reminded me of a human bumblebee at buzz in the world, it would be the author Howard Bloom in his creative nest in Brooklyn, New York. Actually, his nest is on the second floor of one of those unique, historic “building-hives” a couple of subway stops from Broadway. He used to throw down the keys to a visiting “Bloom Believer” like …
Notes from the Field / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Brett Thomas arranged a conference call for people in the Integral Leadership Collaborative and future conference calls with thought leaders. For example, a recently hosted call featured Maureen Metcalf and Mark Palmer, authors of the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. This initial call included a presentation by Ken Wilber and participation by Brett, Jeff Salzman, Willow Dea, Clint Fuhs, Eric Troth and myself.
Those calling in were from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and the US. Three Integral …
Feature Articles / June 2012
Patricia von Papstein
For M.
Abstract: Capital is a great material to work with. It immediately responds to the energy you charge it with. A new league of investment talents now discovers money as a tool for sensual wealth creation. They direct their capital into Eros Impact. Investments with an Eros Impact manifest the satisfaction of emotional, aesthetic and cultural desires in our industrial societies.
The author describes how the investment strategy of Eros Impact has been developed and …
Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ: Barrett, your name is probably very familiar to a lot of people in the core integral group. Integral Leadership Review has many subscribers who are outside those boundaries. So they probably don’t know a lot about you, even though you have shown up in the pages of Integral Leadership Review before with some really remarkable work. I hope we can get to know you a little better. Would you tell us about how you came to your …
Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ:I would like to welcome Barbara Kellerman who is known for a couple of reasons.
One is her scholarship in the field of leadership that has connected beyond the notion of the heroic leader into the that of the relationship between leader and follower. More recently her work extends beyond that—and we will get into that. A second reason is that she is also the founding Executive Director of the Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership at …
Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Topic: Barrett’s Ph.D. research on how leaders with post-conventional consciousness design and engage in complex change initiatives, specifically in the field of sustainability.
Interview Date: August, 2011; Available to public: March-April, 2012; Transcribed: May, 2012
An audio version of the interview can be found on the Integral Life website, which requires subscription access. http://integrallife.com/node/126950
Ken: Hello, Barrett.
Barrett: Hello Ken.
Ken: How are you, buddy?
Barrett: I’m great. Excellent to hear your …